A 2.5-GHz Built-in jitter measurement system in a serial-link transceiver

Shu Yu Jiang, Kuo Hsing Cheng, Pei Yi Jian

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Abstract

A 2.5-GHz built-in jitter measurement (BIJM) system is adopted to measure the clock jitter on a transmitter and receiver. The proposed Vernier caliper and autofocus approaches reduce the area cost of delay cells by 48.78% relative to pure Vernier delay line structure with a wide measurement range. The counter circuit occupies an area of 19 μm × 61 μ m in the traditional stepping scan approach. The proposed equivalent-signal sampling technique removes the input jitter transfer path from the sampling clock. The power supply rejection design is incorporated into the delay cell and the judge circuit. The layout implementation, calibration, and test time of the proposed BIJM system are all improved. The core circuit occupies an area of only 0.5 mm × 0.15 mm with the 90-nm CMOS process. The Gaussian and uniform distributions jitter is verified at a 5-ps timing resolution and a 2.5-GHz input clock frequency.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5152959
Pages (from-to)1698-1708
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Volume17
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2009

Keywords

  • Built-in jitter measurement (BIJM)
  • Jitter
  • Serial-link transceiver

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